Taheebo Tea -- The PERFIDY of the Drug Industry Research
[Karl Note: Here is a great example of the perfidy of the drug industry. It is well accepted in many places that "Taheebo Tea" will eliminate cancer. So, if that seems to be true, what would be the usual drug company action?
Taheebo, itself, of course, cannot patented. It is the bark of a tree -- God did it! Eli Lilly can't patent it!
So, the drug companies do this all the time.
They take the natural substance, some herb, or bark, or whatever, and try to find out what is the "active ingredient" in that material -- they then try to figure out how they can manufacture, artificially, that active ingredient. If they can do THAT, they can usually get a patent on this synthesized substance -- because, of course, it was made "unnaturally," or artificially.
The FDA will approve a new drug if, first, it is SAFE, then it must be EFFECTIVE.
Taheebo Tea is both safe and effective -- but it is a natural substance.
Here is my web page where I present many scientific studies on the active ingredient thought to be in Taheebo:
http://www.oralchelation.com/technical/taheebo1.htm
There are twenty different scientific studies on that link.
Many of these studies do not mention "taheebo" but they do mention "lapachal" which is generally considered the "active ingredient" in Taheebo Bark.
Click here for an excellent history of the medical studies of Taheebo.
There are "many" forms of "lapachal" so that term, too, needs further study.
The scientific studies that delved into the usefulness of Taheebo would NEVER be made public, so don't even try to find them. But, the drug company did the work. They found a way to EXTRACT the active ingredients out of the bark -- only then could they get a patent.
Then tested that active ingredient in the standard way -- with mice that had been deliberately given cancer. The found that this active ingredient was "effective in reducing tumors in mice." That is a fantastic discovery -- there are very few substances that show promise so easily.
Now, keep in mind that they were NOT testing "taheebo bark" or any natural form of that bark -- they had taken a small component from the bark -- called a "lapachal" and tested that. THIS was the stuff that was effective in reducing tumors.
So, finding that some component of Taheebo would "reduce tumors in mice" was the EFFECTIVE part of the requirement for FDA approval, but not the SAFE part.
This effective substance was found, unfortunately, to have some adverse side effects.
Here is one reference to toxicity:
Perhaps the most significant study on toxicity was published in 1970 by researchers from the Chase Pfizer & Co., Inc. Looking specifically at lapachol, these investigators found that all signs of lapachol toxicity in animals were completely reversible and even self limiting, i.e., over time the signs of toxicity decreased and even disappeared within the time constraints of the study. The most severe kinds of self-limiting side-effects they observed were an anti-vitamin K effect, anemia, and significant rises of metabolic and protein toxins in the blood stream. The diminution of these signs indicates that lapacho initiates an immediate "alterative" or "detoxification" effect on the body's cells. Once the cells are "cleaned up," the signs of toxicity disappear. This effect is quite common among herbal tonics. (source)
So, per FDA guidelines, there was no reason to pursue the studies. If it shows to be toxic, in any form, the research is not continued.
Keep in mind that this research was NOT with Taheebo bark, or any simple extract of that bark -- but rather a chemically synthesized material that could be patented. The drug company has ZERO reason to prove that some natural substance can be effective in treating cancer, etc.
The drug company did NOT test, or certainly did not ever release, any findings that the taheebo bark, or any simple extract, was toxic in any way.
It is not.
Here is another study result:
The main active ingredient is a substance called lapachol, a substance whose molecular composition makes it uniquely suited to induce strong biological activity against cancer. Nine patients with various cancers (liver, kidney, breast and prostate adenocarcinomas, and squamous cell carcinoma of the palate and uterine cervix) were given pure lapachol in 250-mg [milligrams] capsules with meals. All 9 patients showed a shrinkage of tumors and reductions in tumor-related pain; 3 patients experienced complete remissions, and there were no adverse side effects. (Santana) (source)
Here is a link to my Google Search Example, entering the word "taheebo" on just one of my web sites-- and finding about 30 different pages where that word is used.
The FDA gave Taheebo bark, itself, a clean bill of health in 1981.
The FDA would love nothing better than to shut down the sale of herbal medicines in the U.S. since it represents a serious threat to the economic health of the American pharmaceutical industry. However, by law, they are limited to removing substances which are unsafe. Therefore herbal medicines will survive, at least until the law is changed. However, all this could come to a swift reorganization if Codex Alimentarius is approved. (Source)
There has NEVER been any test that shows that Taheebo Bark, or any simple extraction from it, is dangerous or toxic.
Despite the deceptive claims made below, the truth is here and above.
Those who find references like the below, are looking for bad news, and generally never will accept the truth even if it is obvious to a sane person.
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